The Anthony Eden in Popular Culture
The Anthony Eden hat was essentially an accessory of the 1930s and 1940s, although, in the mid-1950s, the Homburg came to be associated with the melancholic image of comedian Tony Hancock. The Suez débâcle, followed by Eden's departure from public life in 1957 due to ill health, tended to hasten the drawing of a line that might have seemed inevitable before long in the era of "Angry Young Men", rock 'n' roll and Vespa motor scooters which, according to his wife Clarissa, kept Eden awake at night. As the left-wing historian Eric Hobsbawm put it, "Suez and the coming of rock-and-roll divide twentieth century British history".
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